Series Summary: Okazaki Tomoya is a delinquent who finds life dull and believes he'll never amount to anything. Along with his friend Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his high school days away.
One day while walking to school, Tomoya passes a young girl muttering quietly to herself. Without warning she exclaims "Anpan!" (a popular Japanese food) which catches Tomoya's attention. He soon discovers the girl's name is Furukawa Nagisa and that she exclaims things she likes in order to motivate herself. Nagisa claims they are now friends, but Tomoya walks away passing the encounter off as nothing.
However, Tomoya finds he is noticing Nagisa more and more around school. Eventually he concedes and befriends her. Tomoya learns Nagisa has been held back a year due to a severe illness and that her dream is to revive the school's drama club. Claiming he has nothing better to do, he decides to help her achieve this goal along with the help of four other girls.
As Tomoya spends more time with the girls, he learns more about them and their problems. As he attempts to help each girl overcome her respective obstacle, he begins to realise life isn't as dull as he once thought.
Note: There are two series, Clannad and Clannad: After Story. The after story is just a direct continuation so ill just review both in one.
Clannad: 9.2/10. Let me start by saying this. Before Clannad, i would only watch shounen anime with lots of action. I considered Drama and Slice-of-life anime to be too boring. It is true that this anime is not an action anime, nor is it a shounen. If you are here for that, than this anime isn't for you. And if you are here for a cheerful anime, than you should turn away now because this anime will hit you in the feels like no other anime. However, this anime was an amazing anime that let me feel a ton of different range of emotions and impacted my life.
I laughed, I cried, and I experienced something that changed my life. It is a little ironic that although one of its Genre's is comedy, its much more sad than it is happy. Despite that, there are indeed many hilarious funny parts in this anime. It's one of those anime, that when you think about it, you get all nostalgic and suddenly have an urge to go back and watch it again. The characters are anything but generic, they are well-developed and have real desires, problems, situations, and are each unique in their own way. Clannad does a good job of showing each character's problems/life situations, and how Tomoya helps them. This anime also goes through many themes of life and realism; the pain of love, the neglect of parents, the bonds of friendship, and many, many more that really impact you as a person and even leave a lasting affect on your life.
In Clannad, you really get to connect with each of the characters and you really feel what they are going through, in fact it feels like a real word. So much so that it becomes very emotional when watching. Clannad will always hold a special place in my heart.
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